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WHAT  IS  REAL  DEMOCRACY? 
MUST  IT  BE  ATTAINED  TO  END  WAR? 


BY 


ROY  HOLLAND  SEWARD 


&  1 I  S  N?  3  A  T  N  t 


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WHAT  IS  REAL  DEMOCRACY? 
MUST  IT  BE  ATTAINED  TO  END  WAR? 

BY 
ROY  HOLLAND  SEWARD 


Copyright,  1917 

by 

R.  E.  SEWARD 


SPIRITUAL  vs.  MATERIAL 

WAYS    AND    MEANS    OF    ENDING    THE 
PRESENT  WORLD- WAR 


Blessed  is  he  that  readeth,  and  they  that  hear 
the  words  of  this  prophecy,  and  keep  those  things 
which  are  written  therein:  for  the  time  is  at  hand. 
— Revelation  i.,  3. 

Mrs.  Eddy  says  on  page  172  of  Miscellaneous 
Writings:  "Dispensing  the  Word  charitably,  but 
separating  the  tares  from  the  wheat,  let  us  declare 
the  positive  and  the  negative  of  metaphysical  Science; 
what  it  is,  and  what  it  is  not."  Again  on  pages  534 
and  535  of  Science  and  Health  she  says: 

There  will  be  greater  mental  opposition  to 
the  spiritual,  scientific  meaning  of  the  Scrip- 
tures than  there  has  ever  been  since  the 
Christian  era  began.  The  serpent,  material 
sense,  will  bite  the  heel  of  the  woman, — 
will  struggle  to  destroy  the  spiritual  idea  of 
Love;  and  the  woman,  this  idea,  will  bruise 
the  head  of  lust.  The  spiritual  idea  has 
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given  the  understanding  a  foothold  in  Christ- 
ian Science.  The  seed  of  Truth  and  the  seed 
of  error,  of  belief  and  of  understanding, — 
yea,  the  seed  of  Spirit  and  the  seed  of  mat- 
ter,—  are  the  wheat  and  tares  which  time  will 
separate,  the  one  to  be  burned,  the  other 
to  be  garnered  into  heavenly  places. 

Following  this  line  of  reasoning,  adhering  strictly 
to  the  scientific  rules  of  divine  metaphysics,  and 
looking  at  the  proposition  from  a  spiritual  stand- 
point I  feel  it  my  duty,  as  a  divine  metaphysician,  to 
show,  or  rather  point  out,  if  I  may,  the  absolute  fallacy 
of  trying  to  bring  about  a  cessation  to  the  present 
war  between  true  democracy,  government  by  the 
Christ-mentality,  and  autocracy,  government  by 
the  so-called  human  mentality,  through  the  employ- 
ment of  human  mental  ways  and  means.  Paul  says 
that  the  "carnal  mind"  is  enmity  against  God — good. 
Consequently,  by  acquiescing  with  the  methods  of 
the  carnal  mind  in  an  endeavor  to  end  the  war,  one 
would  make  a  concession  to  error,  deviate  from  the 
metaphysical  postulates  of  divine  metaphysics,  throw 
the  weight  of  influence  on  the  wrong  or  material  side, 
and  forfeit  his  spiritual  power,  thereby  inviting  defeat 
at  the  outset. 

If  Christian  Science  makes  anything  clear  what- 
ever, it  must  be  this:  that  material  and  spiritual 
methods  do  not  coincide,  and  that  the  human  and 
divine  mentalities  do  not  cooperate,  but  vice  vena, 


—they  run  in  counter  directions.  This  being  true, 
is  it  not  a  species  of  human  egotism  for  any  individual, 
or  nation,  to  attempt  to  unite  that  which  God  has 
not  joined  together,  and  to  endeavor  to  bring  an  end 
to  the  present  war,  through  the  employment  of 
other  than  spiritual  methods  of  warfare?  Those  who 
are  employing  spiritual  methods  are  following  in 
the  footsteps  of  Truth— "The  Way  of  Wisdom" 
{Miscellany,  p.  356).  Those  who  are  employing 
■material  methods  are  following  "Ways  that  are  Vain" 
{Miscellany,  p.  210). 

Christian  Scientists  cannot  be  negative  or  neutral 
in  their  attitude  toward  the  war.  The  mistaken 
notion  that  they  can  assume  an  attitude  of  neutrality 
and  be  exempted  from  enlistment  in  actual  service  on 
the  side  of  the  divine  Mind  in  its  inexorable  warfare 
of  the  extermination  of  the  cause  of  the  war — the 
carnal  mind — manifests  an  unwillingness  to  respond 
to  the  voice  of  the  ever-present,  impersonal  idea, 
Christ;  a  stubbornness  to  yield  to  divine  demands;  an 
inability  to  follow  the  spiritual  leadership  of  our  Leader, 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  as  she  ascends  the  scale  of  scien- 
tific being  and  calls  us  to  rise  to  higher  spiritual 
altitudes.  This  condition  of  human  belief  is  severely 
rebuked  in  the  following  words  from  Revelation  iii., 
16:  "Because  thou  art  lukewarm,  and  neither  cold 
nor  hot,  I  will  spue  thee  out  of  my  mouth." 

Mrs.  Eddy  says  on  page  216  of  Science  and  Health: 
"Spirituality   lay6   open   siege   to   materialism.     On 


which  side  are  we  fighting?  "  Every  genuine  Christian 
Scientist  strives  to  find  his  spiritual  niche,  his  scien- 
tific mental  place  in  the  bod}r  of  Christ,  the  spiritual 
cosmos,  and  behind  the  impregnable  bulwarks  of 
divine  Love,  fights  with  all  the  might  of  his  divine 
nature  in  an  earnest  endeavor  to  stem  the  tide  of 
materialism,  and  to  annihilate  the  sap  positional 
claims  of  impersonal  evil,  remembering,  at  the  same 
time,  that  "the  weapons  of  our  warfare  are  not  carnal, 
but  mighty  through  God  to  the  pulling  down  of 
strong  holds"  (II  Cor.  x.,  4)  and  everything  which 
claims  reality  or  power  apart  from  God. 

He  alone  ascends  the  hill  of  Christian  Science  who 
abides  strictly  by  the  divine  law  of  demonstrable  Truth, 
and  recognizes  the  axiomatic  rule  of  divine  meta- 
physics, viz.:  "Spirit  is  infinite;  therefore  Spirit  is  all. 
'There  is  no  matter'  "  {Miscellany,  p.  357).  Unless 
one  is  willing  to  relinquish  all  material  anchorage 
for  Christ — the  spiritual  idea,  and  renounce  the  false 
evidence  of  material  sense  testimony,  he  is  trying  to 
climb  "up  some  other  way"  (John  x.,  1).  He  volun- 
tarily departs  from  Mind  to  matter,  from  good  to 
evil,  from  divine  to  human  concepts,  and  this  dis- 
qualifies him  from  being  a  divinely  authorized  expo- 
nent of  divine  metaphysics  or  Christian  Science. 
Mrs.  Eddy  refers  to  this  departure  from  the  Christ 
method  in  the  following  words: 

The  predisposing  and  exciting  cause  of  all 
defeat  and  victory  under  the  sun,  rests  on 


this  scientific  basis:  that  action,  in  obedi- 
ence to  God,  spiritualizes  man's  motives  and 
methods,  and  crowns  them  with  success; 
while  disobedience  to  this  divine  Principle 
materializes  human  modes  and  conscious- 
ness, and  defeats  them  (Miscellaneous 
Writings,  pp.  267-268). 

The  government  of  the  United  States,  through  its 
representatives,  is  doing  everything  within  its  power 
to  end  the  war  with  victory  on  the  side  of  democracy. 
No  one  who  is  clothed  in  his  right  mentality  questions 
the  sincerity  and  righteousness  of  its  motives.  It 
does  not  follow  from  this,  however,  that  it  is  using 
the  scientific,  therefore  the  most  powerful  weapons  in 
this  undertaking.  Nations,  as  well  as  individuals, 
may  be  governed  by  material  concepts  and  so  led 
into  a  mistaken  course  of  official  conduct  as  a  result 
of  a  wrong  sense  of  the  scientific  facts  of  existence. 
Being  ignorant  of  the  use  of  spiritual  weapons  of 
warfare,  "the  sword  of  the  Spirit  .  .  .  the  word  of 
God,"  which  Christ  Jesus  and  his  followers  proved 
effectual  in  conquering  sin  and  death,  I  repeat,  not 
employing  these  spiritual  weapons  of  warfare,  but 
resorting  to  material  means  of  defense — "an  eye  for 
an  eye,  and  a  tooth  for  a  tooth"  (Matt,  v.,  38),  the 
government  of  the  United  States  is  engaged  in  the 
mobilization  and  utilization  of  every  conceivable 
material  influence,  power,  and  method  of  the  nation 
in  an  earnest  attempt  to  abolish  autocracy  from  the 


face  of  the  earth.  This  employment  of  human  in- 
stead of  divine  mental  ways  and  means,  however, 
will  never  bring  about  a  successful  consummation 
of  the  war,  which  is  the  outgrowth  of  the  warring 
elements  of  the  carnal  mind.  Mrs.  Eddy's  words 
on  page  225  of  Science  and  Health  support  my  deduc- 
tions: 

A  few  immortal  sentences,  breathing  the 
omnipotence  of  divine  justice,  have  been 
potent  to  break  despotic  fetters  and  abolish 
the  whipping-post  and  slave  market;  but 
oppression  neither  went  down  in  blood,  nor 
did  the  breath  of  freedom  come  from  the 
cannon's  mouth.     Love  is  the  liberator. 

At  this  particular  crisis  in  the  world's  history, 
therefore,  when  autocracy  and  democracy — the  human 
and  divine  mentalities — are  engaged  in  the  greatest 
conflict  ever  known  to  humanity,  and  when  a  great 
chemicalization  wave  is  sweeping  over  the  entire  uni- 
verse and  seems  destined  to  engulf  all  who  are  not 
safely  sheltered  in  the  ark  of  spiritual  understanding, 
it  is  wise  to  halt  and  consider  the  predisposing  and 
exciting  cause  of  this  great  world-wide  disturbance, 
and  endeavor,  if  possible,  to  find  scientific  mental 
ways  and  means  of  bringing  war  to  a  successful, 
therefore  final  consummation. 

The  consensus  of  mortal  opinion  seems  to  be  that 
the  time  is  not  yet  ripe  for  Christian  Scientists  to 


work  from  a  "wholly  spiritual  foundation,  than 
which  there  is  no  other.  .  .  .  Spirit  is  infinite; 
therefore  Spirit  is  all"  (Miscellany,  p.  357),  to  dis- 
pense with  material  methods,  and  to  endeavor 
to  solve  the  vexatious  problems  of  mortal  exist- 
ence through  the  demonstration  of  the  Science  of 
being,— 

There  is  no  life,  truth,  intelligence,  nor 
substance  in  matter.  All  is  infinite  Mind 
and  its  infinite  manifestation,  for  God  is 
All-in-all  (Science  and  Health,  p.  468) . 

Such  a  notion,  however,  is  the  expression  of  human 
hypotheses,  and  will  prevail  until  superseded  by  spir- 
itual understanding.  Material  thought  is  slow  to 
relinquish  time-honored  traditions,  to  yield  the  human 
to  the  divine,  and  to  accept  spiritual  facts.  Mrs. 
Eddy  tells  us,  however,  that  material  concepts  are 
ephemeral  and  transitory,  and  that  they  will  ulti- 
mately vanish  before  spiritualized  thought,  the  Mind 
of  Christ.  She  says  on  page  297  of  Science  and  Health: 
"The  only  fact  concerning  any  material  concept  is, 
that  it  is  neither  scientific  not  eternal,  but  subject  to 
change  and  dissolution." 

Divine  metaphysicians,  or  genuine  Christian  Scien- 
tists, therefore,  are  looking  not  only  for  a  "change" 
in  material  concepts,  but  for  a  complete  "dissolution" 
of  them  and  the  consequent  disappearance  of  their 
false  objectified  phenomena  and  a  revelation  of  the 


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new  heaven  and  the  new  earth — the  phenomena  of 
spiritual  sense.  A  little  lecven  leavens  the  whole  lump. 
In  this  connection  Malachi  tells  us  that  the  operation 
of  the  Christ  idea,  the  radiation  of  the  "Sun  of  righ- 
teousness," in  human  consciousness  will  ultimately 
dissolve  or  disperse  all  material  concepts  and  "leave 
them  neither  root  nor  branch;"  that  is,  Truth  will 
finally  destroy  not  only  every  material  concept,  but 
the  cause,  as  well  as  the  effect,  of  all  error — the  carnal 
mind  and  its  manifestation — a  so-called  material 
man  and  material  universe. 

The  war  between  autocracy  and  democracy  will 
end  only  when  material  concepts  are  dissolved  in  the 
crucible  of  Truth.  We  not  infrequently  hear  it  said 
that  the  whole  world  must  go  to  war,  and  that  every 
individual — every  man,  woman,  and  child — should 
contribute  his  part,  however  small,  toward  helping 
end  the  war.  This  proposition,  however,  has  been 
materially  interpreted  by  some  calling  themselves 
Christian  Scientists,  who  have  lost  sight  of  its  spiritual 
import,  thereby  following  "Ways  that  are  Vain" 
(Miscellany,  p.  210).  Knowing  nothing  about  divine 
democracy — their  duties,  rights,  and  privileges  as 
individual  members,  ideas  of  Christ's  body — they 
are  endeavoring  to  cooperate,  as  units  of  a  social 
organism,  in  an  endeavor  to  do  their  part  toward 
bringing  about  victory  in  favor  of  the  allied  forces. 
The  true  Christian  Scientist,  demonstrator  of  genuine 
Christian  Science  as  taught  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 


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the  Discoverer  and  Founder  of  Christian  Science, 
armed  with  spiritual  understanding,  is  not  deceived 
by  the  suggestion  of  anti-Christ,  and  is  endeavoring 
to  find  his  niche  in  divine  democracy — the  impreg- 
nable fortification  in  the  secret  place  of  the  divine 
Mind — and  from  this  summit  of  spiritual  power  and 
security  patiently  awaits  the  self-extinction  of  evil 
and  its  embodiments,  and  the  reign  of  the  phenomena 
of  spiritual  reality — eternal  life  in  infinite  Mind. 

The  motive  and  purpose,  which  prompt  people  to 
engage  in  Red  Cross  work,  to  enlist  in  the  army  and 
navy,  to  become  farmers  with  a  view  of  feeding  and 
sustaining  those  who  are  fighting  in  the  trenches, 
and  to  contribute,  in  other  ways,  toward  the  perpetua- 
tion of  the  war  on  a  material  basis,  may  be  patriotic 
and  humanitarian,  but  they  are  not  spiritual,  and  be- 
ing unspiritual  they  must  be  unscientific,  and  being 
unscientific,  they  must  be  the  outgrowth  of  material 
concepts,  and  not  the  outcome  of  the  divine  law  and 
order.  Consequently,  such  mistaken  methods,  how- 
ever sincere,  will  utterly  fail  in  bringing  about  a 
cessation  of  this  great  world-wide  battle  between  the 
Christ-man  and  the  so-called  carnal  man,  which  is 
destined,  sooner  or  later,  to  annihilate  the  false  sense 
of  existence  and  its  counterfeit  phenomena, — the 
material  Adam-dream  universe, — thereby  revealing 
the  new  heaven  and  the  new  earth,  the  spiritual  uni- 
verse of  God's  creating. 

There  is  not  a  single  word  in  our  textbook,  Science 


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and  Health,  to  warrant  the  assumption  that  Mrs. 
Eddy  recommends  the  employment  of  material 
methods  in  combating  evil  and  its  phenomena.  On 
the  contrary,  she  continuously  admonishes  us,  through 
the  medium  of  her  writings,  that  our  warfare  with 
evil  is  entirely  a  "mental  conflict  between  the  evi- 
dence of  the  spiritual  senses  and  the  testimony  of  the 
material  senses,"  Science  and  Health,  p.  288,  and  that 
evil  can  be  successfully  handled  only  through  the 
utilization  of  the  Mind  of  Christ,  the  Word  of  God. 

No  one,  who  is  awake  to  the  "still,  small  voice" 
of  the  ever-present  impersonal  idea,  Mrs.  Eddy's 
divine  selfhood,  can  be  deceived,  or  led  to  believe,  for 
a  moment,  that  he  should  enlist  and  use  material 
weapons  of  warfare  to  bring  to  an  end  this  terrible 
conflict.  Mrs.  Eddy,  while  admonishing  us  to  enlist 
in  the  conflict  against  evil  and  to  be  aggressive  in  our 
attitude  toward  it,  yet  points  out  the  fallacy  of  re- 
sorting to  material  weapons  of  warfare  in  the  follow- 
ing words  from  Miscellaneous  Writings,  page  336: 

It  is  your  province  to  wrestle  with  error, 
to  handle  the  serpent  and  bruise  its  head; 
but  you  cannot,  as  a  Christian  Scientist,  re- 
sort to  stones  and  clubs, — yea,  to  matter, — 
to  kill  the  serpent  of  a  material  mind. 

Let  the  power  of  the  Christ-mind,  which  you 
possess,  nullify  the  hate  and  the  evil  of  the  so-called 


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carnal  man.  The  relinquishment  of  the  spiritual 
fact  of  one  creator,  and  one  creation — God  and  His 
infinite  manifestation,  Christ,  the  spiritual  universe, 
including  the  sons  and  daughters  of  divine  Love;  the 
acceptance  of  the  false  sense  of  existence  with  its 
accompanying  result — the  belief  in  other  gods  and 
other  creators;  the  incorporation  into  one's  conscious- 
ness from  other  sources  of  that  which  is  contrary  to 
demonstrable  Truth,  viz.:  that  God  is  All  and  man 
is  His  image  and  likeness;  the  forgetfulness  of,  and 
lack  of  consecration  to  the  one  thing  needful — the 
spiritual  fact;  the  indulgence  in  and  acquiescence  with 
human  mental  ways  and  means  of  doing  things,  and 
the  endeavor  to  demonstrate  the  Word  of  God — 
divine  Science — on  any  other  than  a  "wholly  spiri- 
tual" basis — these  are  some  of  the  phases  of  those 
mental  concessions,  on  the  part  of  so-called  Christian 
Scientists,  to  the  subtle  and  insidious  suggestions 
of  malicious  animal  magnetism,  which  hypnotize 
them,  reverse  the  scientific  facts  of  immutable  Truth, 
and  cause  them  to  lose  sight  of  the  spiritual  sense  of 
existence. 

The  battle  of  Armageddon  is  en.  A  titanic  struggle 
between  two  opposing  mental  forces — the  human  and 
divine  mentalities — is  now  in  progress.  Error's 
advocates — the  agencies  of  impersonal  evil — and 
Truth's  representatives — the  demonstrators  of  im- 
personal good — are  engaged  in  a  final  death  struggle. 
The  present  war  is  the  outgrowth  of  the  conflict  between 


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the  human  and  divine  mentalities,  between  Truth 
and  error,  and  will  continue  until  the  divine  destroys 
the  claim  of  the  human.  This  being  true,  Christian 
Scientists  must  prove  the  potency  of  spiritual  thought- 
force.  They  must  aid  in  bringing  war  to  a  final  end 
through  the  weapons  that  Christ  Jesus  employed,  the 
reflection  of  eternal  Mind,  the  Principle  or  cause 
of  real  existence,  man's  spiritual  dominion  or  the 
"dominion"  which  Spirit  bestows  upon  the  real  man 
who  manifests  God — good. 

Scholastic  theology  acknowledges  Jesus'  divine 
method  of  warfare  over  the  phenomena  of  the  human 
mentality  expressed  in  sin,  sickness,  and  death. 
Scholastic  theologians,  as  well  as  those  claiming  to  be 
Christian  Scientists,  must  finally  attain  the  Mind  of 
Christ,  if  they  would  destroy  the  cause  of  war,  human 
generation  and  its  ephemeral  phenomena  which 
masquerades  as  man,  but  is  not  in  the  image  and 
likeness  of  God,  therefore  has  no  real  existence. 

All  wars  or  battles  from  the  foundation  of  the 
world  have  been  wholly  mental  and  must  be  mentally 
brought  to  a  final  end.  "Understanding  the  control 
which  Love  held  over  all,  Daniel  felt  safe  in  the  lions' 
den,  and  Paul  proved  the  viper  to  be  harmless" 
(Science  and  Health,  p.  514).  Love  is  an  element  or 
quality  of  the  eternal  Mind,  God.  His  power  exer- 
cised by  Christ  and  they  that  are  Christ's  will  take 
away  all  the  claim  of  a  power  in  envy,  jealousy,  hate, 
malice,  lust,   and   hypocrisy.     When   these   are  de- 


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stroyed  the  government  of  the  world  will  be  upon  the 
shoulder  of  the  Prince  of  Peace,  the  ideal  man,  who  is 
governed  by  and  executes  the  law  of  God — eternal 
Life,  Truth,  and  Love.  Then  will  come  the  reign  of 
peace  on  earth,  "good  will  toward  men,"  then  will  be 
established  the  true  brotherhood  of  man. 

The  Kaiser — the  agency  through  whom  the  mental 
forces  of  anti-Christ  are  operating  uninterruptedly 
(since  he  is  offering  no  resistance  to  them) — is  a 
typical  example  of  what  malicious  animal  magne- 
tism, or  belief  in  a  power  apart  from  God — divine 
Mind — may  lead  to,  unless  thwarted  in  its  incipiency. 
If  the  Kaiser  were  controlled  by  the  Mind  of  Christ, 
impersonal  good,  he  would  cease  to  be  the  representa- 
tive of  impersonal  evil — organized  greed,  lust  for 
material  power,  territorial  conquest,  etc. — and  the 
war  would  be  brought  to  a  speedy  termination  as  a 
result  of  his  refusal  to  become  the  channel  or  agency 
for  the  evil  or  autocratic  suggestions  of  the  so-called 
carnal  mind.  The  claim  of  autocratic  rulership,  or  the 
theory  of  divine  rightism,  is  the  outgrowth  of  the 
despotic  tendencies  inherent  in  the  carnal  mind, 
described  by  Paul,  and  will  be  stubbornly  fought 
for  by  the  ignorant  and  materially  minded  until 
exterminated  by  spiritual  power — divine  democracy — 
reflected  by  the  sons  and  daughters  of  divine  Love, 
the  representatives  of  Truth. 

Jesus  resorted  to  no  material  force  nor  other  et 
ceteras  of  the  so-called  human  mind  which  is  at  enmity 


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with  the  divine  purpose.  "For  all  they  that  take  the 
[material]  sword  shall  perish  with  the  [material] 
sword"  (Matt,  xxvi.,  52). 

Nations,  like  individuals,  as  long  as  they  are 
governed  by  material  concepts,  will  continue  to  be 
advocates  of  false  issues  and  supporters  of  policies 
inimical  to  the  normal  gravitation  of  man  toward  the 
realization  of  divine  democracy. 

Our  beloved  President,  Woodrow  Wilson,  the 
chosen  champion  of  human  democracy,  the  representa- 
tive, or  agency,  through  whom  the  righteous  impulses 
of  an  improved  belief  are  operating  and  urging  to 
higher  outlooks  and  more  scientific  achievements,  in 
their  endeavor  to  merge  into  unity  and  at-one-ment 
with  the  one  Mind — should  be  loyally  and  morally 
supported  by  every  citizen  of  the  United  States,  in 
this  hour  of  national  peril,  and  permitted  to  carry  out 
unhampered  and  untrammeled  his  sublime  mission  in 
making  the  world  safe  for  human  democracy.  He  is 
doing  his  work  nobly  and  creditably  on  a  human  plane, 
and  this  will  have  a  far  reaching  effect  in  not  only 
preparing  the  world-thought  for  the  reign  of  human 
democracy,  but  in  sowing  the  seeds  of  divine  democ- 
racy, and  in  precipitating  the  ultimate  reign  of  the 
impersonal  idea,  Christ,  the  Prince  of  Peace,  who  is 
"behind  the  shadow"  scientifically  calming  the 
raging  elements  of  the  carnal  mind,  inherent  in 
individtial  and  universal  consciousness.  This  is  an 
axiom   of   divine  metaphysics — that   individuals,    as. 


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well  as  nations,  must  sooner  or  later  overcome  the 
human  and  rise  to  the  consideration  of  all  proposi- 
tions from  a  spiritual,  instead  of  a  material  stand- 
point. 

The  subordination  of  the  false  mentality,  or  carnal 
mind;  the  crucifixion  of  the  undestroyed  human 
element,  and  the  ascension  above  material  viewpoints 
are  conditions  precedent  to  a  proper  realization  of 
the  Principle  of  scientific  being  and  the  true  perspec- 
tive of  the  phenomena  of  divine  reality — man  and 
the  universe  in  the  image  and  likeness  of  God  the 
source  and  supply  of  all  created  things. 

President  Wilson's  continued  responsiveness  to  the 
divine  nature,  Christ, — his  spiritual  identity, — will 
ultimately  cause  him  to  surrender  the  human  to  the 
divine  viewpoint;  to  repudiate  evil — militarism;  to 
consider  fundamental  issues  from  a  spiritual  basis; 
to  rise  entirely  out  of  human  mental  ways  and  means 
of  doing  things,  thereby  achieving  the  ultimatum  of 
scientific  being — divine  democracy,  wherein  all  will 
recognize  themselves  as  individual  members,  ideas,  of 
Christ's  body,  reflecting  the  freedom  of  the  sons  and 
daughters  of  God — divine  Love. 

It  will  be  observed,  from  the  two  paragraphs  above, 
that  there  are  two  opposing  forces  at  war — that  one 
is  fighting  to  maintain  the  autocratic  rule  of  the  false 
mentality,  or  carnal  so-called  mind,  and  the  other,  to 
make  the  world  safe  for  human  democracy.  Both 
sides,  however,  are  using  material  methods  of  warfare. 


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It  will  be  noticed  that  there  is  a  third  party  which 
is  also  bravely  fighting,  but  it  is  employing  only  mental 
means,  spiritual  weapons — righteous  prayer,  the  Mind 
of  Christ — in  an  earnest  endeavor  to  overcome  the 
mental  adversary,  Satan,  anti-Christ,  the  carnal  mind 
— the  prolific  source  of  all  discord,  physical  and 
mental,  and  make  the  world  safe  for  divine  democracy. 
To  these  brave,  faithful  soldiers  of  Christ — divine 
metaphysicians — apply  these  words  of  Scripture  from 
Zechariah  xiii.,  8,  9: 

And  it  shall  come  to  pass,  that  in  all  the 
land,  saith  the  Lord,  two  parts  therein  shall 
be  cut  off  and  die;  but  the  third  shall  be 
left  therein. 

And  I  will  bring  the  third  part  through 
the  fire,  and  will  refine  them  as  silver  is  re- 
fined, and  will  try  them  as  gold  is  tried :  they 
shall  call  on  My  name,  and  I  will  hear  them : 
I  will  say,  It  is  My  people:  and  they  shall 
say,  The  Lord  is  my  God. 

"Entrenched  behind  the  breastworks  of  omnipo- 
tence" upon  the  mountain-top  of  Zion,  Israel's 
army — the  faithful  soldiers  of  Christ,  the  impersonal 
"Directors"  in  the  universe  of  Spirit,  to  whom  Mrs. 
Eddy  referred  in  her  letter  to  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Scientist,  New  York  City  {Miscellany,  p.  360),  im- 
bued with  spiritual  perception,  which  gives  them  the 
true  perspective  of  the  strategic  positions  occupied 


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by  the  opposing  mental  forces, — the  dragon  and  his 
angels,  mortal  mind  and  its  embodiments — are  con- 
tinually bombarding,  with  the  mental  ammunition  of 
Truth  and  Love,  the  material  fortifications  constructed 
out  of  the  adamantine  formation  of  so-called  mortal 
mind.  Confusion,  disorder,  and  uncertainty  reign, 
and  victory  for  the  allied  forces  of  Truth  and  Love  is 
imminent. 

These  faithful  soldiers  of  Christ,  genuine  Christian 
Scientists  following  the  ever-present  impersonal  Leader 
— Christ — the  compound  idea — these  faithful  sen- 
tinels on  the  watch-towers  of  Zion,  clad  in  the  in- 
vincible armor  of  divine  Love,  are  determined  not  to 
lay  down  their  weapons  until  they  have  destroyed  the 
claim  of  sin,  impersonal  evil,  which  operates  through 
physical  personalities,  for  they  know  that  only  in  this 
way  can  they  end  the  suppositional  conflict  between 
Truth  and  error.  In  this  great  struggle  for  supremacy 
between  the  human  and  divine  mentalities,  it  is  wise 
to  beware  of  the  argument  of  human  belief  to  "take 
thine  ease,  eat,  drink,  and  be  merry"  (Luke  xii.,  19). 

Paul  was  a  divine  metaphysician.  He  was  conscious 
of  the  supposititious  warfare  between  Truth  and  error, 
Science  and  the  material  senses,  spiritual  and  hu- 
man concepts,  and  was  always  alert,  active,  and 
aggressive  in  stirring  up  the  consciousness  of  the 
people,  in  order  that  they  might  not  be  mesmerized 
and  overcome  with  the  evil  and  autocratic  suggestions 
of  the  carnal  mind  to  reject  the  absolute  and  accept  the 


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relative  point  of  view.  Peter  admonished  the  people 
in  the  following  words,  which  are  heeded  by  all  genuine 
Christian  Scientists: 

But  there  were  false  prophets  also  among 
the  people,  even  as  there  shall  be  false 
teachers  among  you,  who  privily  shall  bring 
in  .  .  .  heresies,  .  .  .  and  bring  upon 
themselves  swift  destruction. 

And  many  shall  follow  their  pernicious 
ways;  by  reason  of  whom  the  way  of  truth 
shall  be  evil  spoken  of. 

Yet  herefore,  beloved,  seeing  ye  know  these 
things  before,  beware  lest  ye  also,  being  led 
away  with  the  error  of  the  wicked,  fall  from 
your  own  stedfastness  (II  Peter  ii.,  i ,  2 ;  iii.  ,17). 

Christian  Scientists  should  beware  that  they  are 
not  misled  to-day,  as  the  people  were  of  old,  by  "false 
teachers" — those  who  fail  to  perceive  the  spiritual 
import  of  divine  metaphysics,  and  who,  actuated 
by  sense  testimony,  rather  than  by  divine  Principle, 
unintentionally  influence  the  weak  and  vacillating 
in  the  faith  to  follow  "their  pernicious  ways, "  thereby 
causing  the  "way  of  truth  to  be  evil  spoken  of"  and 
bringing  upon  themselves  "swift  destruction" — ex- 
tinction; but,  on  the  contrary,  should  be  careful  lest 
they,  being  led  astray  with  the  "error  of  the  wicked" 
— the  error  of  adulterating  the  metaphysical  purity  of 
the  Science  of  being — fall  from  their  own  steadfastness 
to  Principle. 


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By  familiarizing  themselves  with  the  spiritual 
import  of  divine  Science;  by  adopting  a  policy  of 
alert  watchfulness  with  reference  to  the  false  mental 
claims  of  error,  and  by  working,  watching,  and  pray- 
ing that  they  may  not  be  misled  by  the  autocratic 
enactments  of  the  carnal  mind,  they  shall  repudiate 
error  in  all  of  its  forms,  phases,  and  manifestations, 
and  thereby  gain  a  more  thorough  comprehension  of 
Truth,  which  shall  make  the  history  of  mankind  a 
series  of  ascending  developments  toward  the  realiza- 
tion that  Spirit  is  all,  there  is  no  matter. 

Ignorance,  which  causes  one  to  personalize  rather 
than  impersonalize  evil,  constitutes  the  bane  of 
Christianity,  prevents  spiritual  growth,  impedes  the 
recognition  of  the  brotherhood  of  man,  and  perpetu- 
ates the  war  by  adding  fuel  to  the  great  conflagration 
now  raging  throughout  the  world  of  material  sense. 
It  causes  one  to  misinterpret  the  Science  of  being,  to 
throw  the  weight  of  influence  on  the  wrong  side — the 
material,  and  to  prolong  the  conflict  between  human 
and  divine  concepts.  One  can  never  rise  in  the  scale 
of  scientific  development  until  ignorance  is  supplanted 
by  spiritual  enlightenment,  and  the  light  of  spiritual 
understanding  dispels  the  illusions  of  mortal  mind 
with  its  beliefs  of  a  mortal  man  and  material  universe. 
Sooner  or  later,  it  must  be  admitted  by  all  that  there 
never  was,  is  not,  and  never  will  be  a  material  genera- 
tion, and  that  the  All-knowing  Mind  and  His  creation 
— the   spiritual    universe,    including    the    individual 


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identities  composing  the  body  of  Christ — are  the  only 
real  and  eternal  verities  of  being.  The  new  heaven 
and  new  earth,  therefore,  will  be  revealed  to  all  who 
redeem  their  birthright — spiritual  understanding  of 
their  relation  to  the  one  God  and  Father  of  all. 

The  following  words  from  the  eighth  chapter  of 
John  illustrate  Jesus'  method  of  imper sonalizing  evil, 
and  show,  by  way  of  contrast,  the  material  and  the 
spiritual  viewpoint.  Furthermore,  they  show  how 
Jesus  allowed  himself  to  become  the  representative  of 
impersonal  good,  and  how  the  scribes  and  Pharisees 
permitted  themselves  to  become  the  mouthpieces  or 
agencies  of  a  false  mentality — impersonal  evil.  John 
says : 

And  the  scribes  and  Pharisees  brought  unto 
him  [Jesus]  a  woman  taken  in  adultery;  and 
when  they  had  set  her  in  the  midst, 

They  say  unto  him,  Master,  this  woman 
was  taken  in  adultery,  in  the  very  act. 

Now  Moses  in  the  law  commanded  us,  that 
such  should  be  stoned:  but  what  sayest  thou? 

This  they  said,  tempting  him,  that  they 
might  have  to  accuse  him.  But  Jesus 
stooped  down,  and  with  his  finger  wrote  on 
the  ground,  as  though  he  heard  them  not. 

So  when  they  continued  asking  him,  he 
lifted  up  himself,  and  said  unto  them,  He 
that  is  without  sin  among  you,  let  him  first 
cast  a  stone  at  her. 

And  again  he  stooped  down,  and  wrote  on 
the  ground. 


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And  they  which  heard  it,  being  convicted 
by  their  own  conscience,  went  out  one  by  one, 
beginning  at  the  eldest,  even  unto  the  last: 
and  Jesus  was  left  alone,  and  the  woman 
standing  in  the  midst. 

When  Jesus  had  lifted  up  himself,  and  saw 
none  but  the  woman,  he  said  unto  her,  Wo- 
man, where  are  those  thine  accusers?  hath  no 
man  condemned  thee? 

She  said,  No  man,  Lord.  And  Jesus  said 
unto  her,  Neither  do  I  condemn  thee:  go,  and 
sin  no  more. 

Mrs.  Eddy  says  on  page  310  of  Miscellaneous 
Writings:  "To  impersonalize  scientifically  the  ma- 
terial sense  of  existence — rather  than  cling  to  person- 
ality— is  the  lesson  of  to-day."  Jesus  impersonalized 
evil  and  refused  to  attach  or  associate  it  with  the 
woman's  real  personality.  This  spiritual  concept,  or 
correct  view  of  the  woman's  divine  individuality, 
dispossessed  evil  of  its  suppositional  power  over  her. 
Jesus  held  in  thought  a  right  concept  of  the  woman's 
divine  identity,  or  spiritual  selfhood.  He  knew  that 
the  woman  was  an  individualized  manifestation  of 
divine  Mind,  and  hence  was  entirely  separate  and  apart 
from  the  claim  of  sin.  Mrs.  Eddy  describes  Jesus' 
spiritual  point  of  view,  which  healed  the  sick  and  cast 
out  the  claim  of  suppositional  evil,  in  the  following 
words:  "Jesus  beheld  in  Science  the  perfect  man, 
who  appeared  to  him  where  sinning  mortal  man  ap- 
pears to  mortals.     In  this  perfect  man  the  Saviour 


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saw  God's  own  likeness,  and  this  correct  view  of  man 
healed  the  sick"  (Science  and  Health,  pp.  476,  477). 
The  scientific  method  employed  by  Jesus  and  Mrs. 
Eddy,  in  impersonating  evil,  was  constructive,  while 
the  unscientific  method  employed  by  the  scribes  and 
Pharisees,  in  personalizing  evil,  was  destructive.  Un- 
questionably, the  only  way  one  can  benefit  himself  and 
help  others  is  to  scientifically  impersonalize  evil,  ac- 
cording to  the  teachings  of  Jesus  and  Mary  Baker 
Eddy. 

We  can  never  end  war  through  the  use  of  material 
weapons  of  warfare,  or  through  a  wrong  conception 
of  being.  The  issue  between  true  or  divine  democracy, 
an  emanation  of  divine  Mind,  and  human  auto- 
cracy, an  outgrowth  of  the  carnal  mind,  can  never  be 
brought  to  a  successful  consummation  with  vic- 
tory on  the  side  of  God — right — except  through 
spiritualization  of  thought  which  alone  will  enable 
one  to  scientifically  impersonalize  evil,  and  thereby 
demonstrate  the  powerlessness  of  the  claim  of  sin 
to  operate  through  so-called  personal  channels  or 
agencies. 

If  Christian  Scientists  would  demonstrate  their 
full  "dominion"  as  sons  and  daughters  of  divine 
Love,  if  they  would  prove  the  power  of  spiritual  sense 
over  the  false  mental  claim  of  sin,  the  belief  of  life  in 
matter  and  show  forth  the  glory  of  the  Father,  they 
must  cling  tenaciously  to  God  and  His  idea — Christ — 
the  spiritual  individuality,  and  repudiate  the  physical 


organism  as  a  substanceless  shadow  possessing  neither 
reality  nor  power. 

Emerson  says  that  prayer  is  the  "contemplation  of 
the  facts  of  life  from  the  highest  point  of  view." 
From  this  it  follows,  logically  and  scientifically,  that 
the  spiritual  fact  must  be  the  highest  point  of  view 
and  the  only  one  that  is  permissible  in  the  practice 
of  true  Christian  Science.  Divine  metaphysicians, 
therefore,  looking  at  the  war  from  the  highest  point  of 
view — the  divine — see  it  as  the  outgrowth  of  a  wrong 
point  of  view,  the  phenomena  of  the  "carnal  mind," 
the  extemalization  of  a  false  sense  of  existence,  which 
will  vanish,  as  a  shadow,  into  nothingness,  when  the 
divine  Mind,  operating  through  the  spiritual  represen- 
tatives of  Truth,  destroys  the  dream  which  induces 
mortals  to  adopt  an  erroneous  point  of  view,  to  believe 
in  a  power  apart  from  God,  good,  and  to  engage  in  a 
warfare  against  the  warring  elements  of  the  carnal 
mind  in  an  attempt  to  neutralize  them  by  utilizing 
material  instead  of  spiritual  means — efficacious  prayer, 
the  sword  of  the  Spirit. 

Genuine  Christian  Scientists  agree  that  prayer — 
righteous  prayer,  spiritual  affirmation,  the  reflection 
of  divine  Love — alone  will  antidote  the  warring  ele- 
ments of  the  so-called  carnal  mind  and  end  the  war. 
With  this  in  view,  they  are  consecrating  themselves 
anew  to  the  task  of  destroying  the  universal  belief 
that  there  are  two  opposing  mental  forces,  a  dual 
consciousness — a   human    and    divine   mentality,    at 


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work  in  the  world.  They  recognize  that  the  con- 
templation of  the  facts  of  being,  from  a  wrong  view- 
point— the  material — is  the  predisposing  and  exciting 
cause  of  the  present  war,  and  that  the  only  waj'  to 
correct  this  basic  mental  error  is  to  destroy  the  belief 
of  dualism,  and  mentally  realize  and  persistently  affirm 
that  there  is  but  one  First  Cause  or  consciousness — 
the  divine — from  which  proceeds  or  emanates  a 
perfect  spiritual  universe,  which  is  composed  of  God's 
ideas,  or  children,  each  of  which  is  a  reflector  of  the 
substance  of  divine  Mind,  is  under  the  control  of 
divine  law,  and  subject  to  the  discipline  of  the  Christ 
government. 

This  source,  or  Principle — God — from  which  pro- 
ceed all  ideas,  identities,  is  not  a  dual  consciousness 
constituted  of  good  and  evil,  but,  on  the  contrary,  is 
a  consciousness  which  is  "wholly  spiritual."  It  is 
the  God-consciousness  and  is  exempt  from  every 
phase  of  imperfection  and  every  taint  of  evil.  From 
this  it  follows  that  the  present  war — the  outgrowth  of 
the  carnal  mind,  cannot  proceed  from  God,  good,  but 
must  be  the  phenomena  of  mortal  consciousness — the 
counterfeit  of  the  divine  mentality.  Consequently, 
the  only  way  to  nullify  the  cause  of  the  war  is  to  recog- 
nize it  for  what  it  is — a  conflict  between  the  human 
and  divine  mentalities — and  cease  to  believe  in,  or 
give  reality  to,  the  human  mentality,  and  continu- 
ously declare  the  unreality  of  all  that  is  inharmonious 
and  self-destructive,  and  that  does  not  partake  of  the 


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divine  nature.  Mrs.  Eddy  says  on  page  93  of  Science 
and  Health:  "Whatever  contradicts  the  real  nature  of 
the  divine  Esse,  though  human  faith  may  clothe  it 
with  angelic  vestments,  is  without  foundation." 

The  scientific  statement  of  being,  in  its  applica- 
tion to  human  needs,  is  the  direct  antithesis  of  the 
testimony  of  mortal  mind,  which  argues  for  the  belief 
of  life  and  intelligence  in  matter.  Every  time  one 
repeats  the  substance  of  the  scientific  statement  of 
being,  he  makes  a  spiritual  affirmation,  and  strikes  a 
telling  blow  at  the  supposed  foundation  of  so-called 
material  knowledge — the  erroneous  belief  of  matter 
as  sentient  substance.  The  potency  of  spiritual 
thought  is  a  silent,  disintegrating  force  to  evil  in  every 
form  it  may  assume.  Let  Christian  Scientists  con- 
tinue their  mental  declarations  of  God's  allness  and 
their  oneness  with  Him,  until  Truth  and  Love  tri- 
umph over  the  false  mentality,  or  Adam-dream,  which 
is  the  predisposing  and  active  cause  of  all  discord, 
physical  and  mental. 

Glory  to  God  for  Mrs.  Eddy's  discovery  of  Christ 
Jesus'  mental  method  of  destroying  sin  and  death 
through  the  spiritual  power  which  God  bestows  on 
man  in  His  image  and  likeness  who  reflects  His  law 
of  divine  love. 

When  the  light  of  spiritual  understanding,  reflected 
by  spiritual  individuality — the  impersonal  "Direct- 
ors" in  the  universe  of  Spirit,  the  individualized  mani- 
festations of  infinite  Mind — when  this  light  dissolves 


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the  darkness  of  material  concepts,  false  mental  pic- 
tures projected  upon  the  wall  of  corporeality,  finite 
physical  personality  will  fade  into  invisibility,  nothing- 
ness, and  man's  spiritual  individuality,  his  divine  self- 
hood, as  God's  idea,  will  illuminate  the  universe  with 
the  glory  of  God,  the  Principle  of  being. 

This  foreshadows  the  reappearance  of  the  imper- 
sonal compound  idea,  the  divine  selfhood  of  Christ 
Jesus  who  represented  the  fatherhood  of  God.  and  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy  who,  in  this  age,  represents  the 
motherhood  of  God,  and  points  to  the  end  of  the  dark 
dream  of  material  so-called  life. 

Let  all  Christian  Scientists,  who  have  struggled 
long  and  patiently  to  obtain  and  retain  a  glimpse 
of  the  promised  land — divine  reality — adhere  stead- 
fastly to  the  spiritual  import  of  divine  metaphysics 
and  refuse  to  permit  it  to  be  perverted  and  distorted 
by  false  erring  mental  suggestions  of  the  carnal  mind. 
Let  them  be  so  alert  and  watchful  that  they  may  be 
able  to  nullify  the  false  secret  arguments  of  impersonal 
evil,  within  and  without,  thereby  destroying  the 
liability  of  being  deceived  by  the  suggestions  of 
self-hypnotism  or  universal  mesmerism.  Truly,  the 
redemption — revelation — of  all  things,  through  spirit- 
ualization  of  thought,  is  at  hand.  Immortal  conscious- 
ness is  fast  revealing  the  spiritual  embodiments  of 
Soul,  and  the  individualized  manifestations  of  infinite 
Mind  as  the  only  realities  of  being.  The  following 
words  of  Paul  from  Romans  xiii.,  11-14,  should  give 


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much  comfort  and  illumination  to  all  who  are  striving 
to  obliterate  the  human  concept  and  awaken  to  the 
realization  of  their  divine  birthright,  oneness  with  God, 
their  source  of  being.     Let  us, 

Knowing  the  time  [reading  with  absolute 
certainty  the  signs  of  the  times],  that  now  it 
is  high  time  to  awake  out  of  sleep  [sensuous 
mesmerism] :  for  now  is  our  salvation  [eman- 
cipation from  bondage  to  material  concepts] 
nearer  than  when  we  believed  [had  mere  faith 
without  understanding]. 

The  night  [of  error]  is  far  spent,  the  day 
[of  spiritual  understanding]  is  at  hand:  let 
us  therefore  cast  off  the  works  of  darkness 
[material  knowledge  which  gives  us  no 
glimpse  of  God,  spiritual  Truth],  and  let  us 
put  on  the  armour  of  light  [spiritual  under- 
standing, which  reveals  the  glory  of  God]. 

Let  us  walk  honestly,  as  in  the  day;  not 
in  rioting  and  drunkenness  [sensuous  mes- 
merism], .  .  . 

But  put  ye  on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  [the 
Mind  of  Christ,  spiritual  thought],  and  make 
not  provision  for  the  flesh  [material  belief],  to 
fulfil  the  lusts  thereof. 

Mrs.  Eddy  gives  the  gist  of  the  whole  matter  in 
the  following  words  from  Science  and  Health,  page  548 : 

Earth  has  little  light  or  joy  for  mortals 
before  Llife  is  spiritually  learned.  Every 
agony  of  mortal  error  helps  error  to  destroy 


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error,  and  so  aids  the  apprehension  of  im- 
mortal Truth.  This  is  the  new  birth  going 
on  hourly,  by  which  men  may  entertain 
angels,  the  true  ideas  of  God,  the  spiritual 
sense  of  being. 

I  rejoice  that 

The  twelve  tribes  of  Israel  with  all  mortals, 
— separated  by  belief  from  man's  divine 
origin  and  the  true  idea, — will  through  much 
tribulation  yield  to  the  activities  of  the  divine 
Principle  of  man  in  the  harmony  of  Science 
{Science  and  Health,  p.  562). 

Truth's  individual  reflectors — "earth's  luminaries, 
which  serve  to  cleanse  and  rarefy  the  atmosphere  of 
material  sense  and  to  permeate  humanity  with  purer 
ideals"  {Science  and  Health,  p.  37);  yea,  the  "lamps 
in  the  spiritual  heavens  of  the  age,  which  show  the 
workings  of  the  spiritual  idea  ...  by  manifesting 
the  light  which  shines  'unto  the  perfect  day'  as  the 
night  of  materialism  wanes"  {Science  and  Health,  p. 
562),  cannot  be  extinguished,  but,  on  the  contrary, 
will  be  kept  "trimmed  and  burning"  by  the  spiritually 
minded  until  they  hear  Truth's  impersonal  call, 
"Behold,  the  bridegroom  cometh;  go  ye  out  to  meet 
him"  (Matthew  xxv.,  6). 


Caylord  Bros. 

Makers 
Syracuse.  N.  Y. 

PAT.  JAN.  21.  1998 


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